Singapore’s rocket-boosted, solar-powered future, Doodled

Singapore turns 50 this year and the SG50 festivities will soon be spilling over onto the Google Singapore homepage, all thanks to Moh Journ Haydn, aged 8.

He’s the overall winner for the the 2015 Doodle 4 Google competition “Singapore: the next 50 years.” Here's his winning entry:

Haydn’s vision of Singapore in 50 years’ time is truly inspiring:

“Singapore will be powered by solar energy in the next fifty years. There will be no more pollution in the city and we can protect the environment. We will have continuous energy source. One significant change in Singapore is our transport vehicle. Having extendable rocket train will increase capacity of one ride and allow less waiting time. The trains will travel in modern tunnels. Both the trains and tunnels will run on solar energy. We will have no jam on roads. Everyone will be happy.”

You’ll be able to see the Beacon Primary School pupil’s doodle on Google.com.sg on Singapore’s National Day, August 9. He’ll also be traveling to Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, as part of his prize.

Congratulations to Haydn, as well as the other category winners who all walked away with nifty prizes:

• Ahmed Dzafirshah in the 4-6 year-old category
• Zheng Yang in the 10-12 year-old category
• Ong Lin Kai Megan in the 13-15 year-old category
• Steven in the 16-18 year-old category

Haydn will be a spry 58 when he is hopefully riding the rocket-boosted, solar-powered train he envisions for Singapore's 100th birthday. Elon Musk, watch out.

Posted by Sana Rahman, Google Singapore Communications Manager